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RFC 1737 - Security Considerations

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### Security Considerations

Applications that require translation from names to locations, and the resources themselves may require the resources to be authenticated. It seems generally that the information about the authentication of either the name or the resource to which it refers should be carried by separate information passed along with the URN rather than in the URN itself.

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RFC 1737 - Security Considerations